Kachina Doll

2021-4-3

From: United States of America | Arizona

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Soyok Wuhti
Object Number 2021-4-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hopi
Provenience United States of America | Arizona
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Date Made 1980 - 1989 CE
Section American
Materials Wood | Paint | Fabric | Leather | Human Hair (uncertain)
Description

Painted wooden figure of a Hopi ogre woman with yellow eyes, red ears,wide mouth showing teeth, and long brown hair in front of face. The figure wears a black cloth dress with green and red yarn decorations and a black manta shoulder cloth; both fabrics have red paint decoration. The figure wears tall white leather boots, black yarn adornments on the wrists. The proper right hand once held likely either a knife or a crook but this is now missing.

Height 29 cm
Length 15.2 cm
Width 14.3 cm
Credit Line Donated by Jan L. Bernstein, Esq., C79, in honor of Joan and James H. Bernstein, W52

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